UN Duterte Megathread - Following the exploits of a president straight out of the DC universe

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So if you haven't been following the news, Rodrigo Duterte, the President of the Philippines, is constantly stirring shit up. The biggest controversy about him by far is how he has repeatedly encouraged citizens to murder drug users (not even dealers, users). You see, the Philippines has a massive drug problem and drug addicts are despised for fueling the drug trade.

Just yesterday, a top UN official claimed said that Duterte should be investigated for murder, as he boasted that he had personally killed three suspected criminals. Today, Duterte responded to this statement... by threatening to raze the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City in response to those accusing him of human rights violations.

This is just a small sample of how crazy this dude is. I would not at all be surprised to learn that he himself does meth or snorts coke or something.
 
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Cracks down on drugs, but hasn't really done anything about the problems in Mindanao.

I'm not sure if he is missing the plot.

Though I don't think he has sucked up to the US for money/training for that. So I'd give him an A on that.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/phillipines-policemen-falsify-evidence-dutertes-221850029.html

Police in the Philippines are falsifying evidence to justify “war on drugs” killings that have caused more than 7,000 deaths of mostly poor Filipinos, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. President Rodrigo Duterte has been accused of crimes against humanity for the deaths, and the human rights organization urged the United Nations to create an “independent, international investigation” into the killings.

The 117-page report found the Philippine National Police have been carrying out extrajudicial killings, claiming self defense. “ They planted guns, spent ammunition, and drug packets on their victims’ bodies to implicate them in drug activities,” according to the rights group.

Duterte’s war on drugs is meant to target drug pushers or “drug lords,” but human rights charities—including Amnesty International—say those affected either had low-paying jobs or were unemployed and living in poor areas in big cities.

The war lost momentum in January when South Korean businessman Jee Ick- joo was murdered by rogue policemen and Duterte decided to halt the extrajudicial killings. Now, despite concern from international organizations, Duterte is committed to renewing the war on drugs.

At the groundbreaking ceremony for the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway in Cordova town, Cebu on Thursday, Duterte announced that he is “committed to stopping drugs.”

“This means there will be more killings because (criminals) really fight back. It won't end tomorrow,” he said , according t o national newspaper PhilStar.

In the same speech, Duterte warned 6,000 policemen that he knew they were involved in the drugs trade. “You will die. Either you kill me or I kill you,” the president said. Duterte told his police chief Ronald de la Rosa that he could restart his war on drugs as before, on the condition the policemen he used had integrity.


Duterte’s drug war is a “widespread, systematic attack directed against any civilian population,” says Dr. Pauline Eadie, an assistant professor of social sciences at Nottingham University. “Technically it is a crime against humanity. These killings are often cited as self-defense but that is just not credible. The police are at the very least complicit in these killings, and they have the remit to operate without sanction.”

She adds that although drug dealers cause users misery, it is “not OK to ignore the rules of law when dealing with the problem. The answer to the problem is [dealing with] widespread poverty. Large sections of the community see Duterte’s war as a necessary evil.”

Edward Sentorias, a jobless father of three, was framed by the police, according to Human Rights Watch. A close relative saw the policeman place a gun and some sachets by Sentorias’s body. “I went back to where I was, and was totally shocked,” the relative said. “I couldn’t even complain. If we go complain, what is our chance against the authorities?”
 
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The 117-page report found the Philippine National Police have been carrying out extrajudicial killings, claiming self defense. “ They planted guns, spent ammunition, and drug packets on their victims’ bodies to implicate them in drug activities,” according to the rights group.

Duterte’s war on drugs is meant to target drug pushers or “drug lords,” but human rights charities—including Amnesty International—say those affected either had low-paying jobs or were unemployed and living in poor areas in big cities.
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Who could have predicted that encouraging criminals to randomly murder people with no oversight might be taken advantage of just to kill people the murderers didn't like, whether or not they had anything to do with drugs at all?
 
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/stor...ts-us-show-depicting-inappropriate-phl-leader

PHL protests US show depicting ‘inappropriate’ PHL leader


Published March 7, 2017 10:10am
By MICHAELA DEL CALLAR

The Philippine government has protested a major US TV network's fictional show reportedly depicting the Filipino President as "exhibiting inappropriate behavior."

It's the latest potential irritant between the United States and President Rodrigo Duterte, who severely criticized the US government during the time of then-President Barack Obama for raising concerns over the Philippines' bloody campaign against illegal drugs.

The Philippine Embassy in Washington wrote to CBS Corporation on March 6 to strongly protest the highly negative depiction of a character purported to be the Philippine President on the TV series "Madam Secretary."




"In view of the injurious effects that this program will have on the interests of the Philippines and the Filipino people, the Philippine Embassy urgently calls on CBS to take the necessary corrective actions," the embassy said.


The trailer of Season 3 Episode 15 "Break in Diplomacy" shows the character - described in the episode's synopsis as the "Philippines' unconventional new president" - exhibiting inappropriate behavior towards the female lead character, US Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord, played by actress Tea Leoni.

The episode will air on Sunday, March 12.

"While Madam Secretary is a work of fiction, it tracks and mirrors current events. It is, therefore, inevitable that its depiction of world leaders will have an impact on how its audience views the real personages and the countries they represent," the embassy said.

"This highly negative portrayal of our Head of State not only casts doubt on the respectability of the Office of the Philippine President but also denigrates the way our nation navigates foreign affairs. It also tarnishes the Philippines' longstanding advocacy for women's rights and gender equality," it added.

Duterte is one of the most unorthodox presidents the Philippines has ever had with the harsh language and curses that he has leveled or used against critics and opponents, including Obama, whom he asked "to go to hell." — RSJ/TJD, GMA News

Well if DU30 didn't make those comments about the dead missionary, they wouldn't see him that way maybe.
 
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As much as I pity the people in the country that he's ruining, I love watching this edgelord sperg out.

I can't find the clip, but there was an interview where the reporter asked what he'd do if he tried to sell him drugs right then and there.

The presidents rational response: "I would take your news camera and beat you to death with it!"
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wary-china-duterte-tells-navy-build-structures-east-091206409.html

Wary of China, Duterte tells navy to build 'structures' east of Philippines
Reuters
By Manuel Mogato Mon, Mar 13 5:48 AM PDT
By Manuel Mogato

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the navy to put up "structures" to assert sovereignty over a stretch of water east of the country, where Manila has reported a Chinese survey ship was casing the area last year.

The Philippines has lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing after the vessel was tracked moving back and forth over Benham Rise, a vast area east of the country declared by the United Nations in 2012 as part of the Philippines' continental shelf.


The Philippines says Benham Rise is rich in biodiversity and fish stocks.

China's foreign ministry on Friday said the ship was engaged in "normal freedom of navigation and right of innocent passage", and nothing more.

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Duterte's instruction was to increase naval patrols in that area and put up structures "that says this is ours". He did not specify what structures would be erected.

"We are concerned, they have no business going there," Lorenzana told reporters late on Sunday.

Though he accepts China's explanation, Lorenzana said it was clear its vessel was not passing through the area because it stopped several times, for sustained periods.

Lorenzana last week said he was suspicious of China's activities near Benham Rise and suggested they might be part of surveys to test water depths for submarine routes to the Pacific.

Asked during a news conference what his instruction was to the navy concerning Benham Rise, Duterte said the Philippines had to assert itself, but gently.

"You go there and tell them straight that this is ours," he said. "But I say it in friendship."

The issue risks disturbing ties with China at a time of rare cordiality between the two countries under Duterte, who has chosen to tap Beijing for business rather than confront it over its maritime activities and intentions in disputed waters.

Rows with China have usually been about the South China Sea, west of the Philippines, a conduit for about $5 trillion of shipped goods annually. China lays claim to almost the entire South China Sea.

While Duterte has been sanguine about ties with China, Lorenzana is more wary, saying that Beijing's fortification of manmade islands inside the Philippines' 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone has not abated.

Duterte said ties with China were in good shape and dismissed any suggestion of diplomatic disputes resurfacing soon.

"Let us not fight about ownership or sovereignty at this time, because things are going great for my country," he said.

(Additional reporting by Martin Petty; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
 
https://www.rt.com/viral/382564-duterte-eu-child-porn/

In response to critics of Duterte's policies on drug related crime:

"Those in the EU, just engage in online child pornography. Since that's what you are good at."

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Hey he is not wrong on that one. But I think he is being optimistic about the "online" part.
 
So Duterte is criticizing the US for not stopping China when they were building those islands in the first place:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/duterte-slams-us-not-sending-051153377.html

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has criticised the US for not taking early action against China when it first began the construction of the man-made islands in the South China Sea. During a meeting with the US ambassador Sung Kim, the straight-talking leader reportedly questioned him about Washington's decision to remain inactive despite evidence of Beijing's military plans in the disputed waters.


Duterte on Wednesday (29 March) said he was surprised by the US' response, or lack thereof to the issue. "Why did you not send the armada of the 7th Fleet," the president asked the ambassador, referring to the US naval fleet based in Japan.

"Had America really wanted to avoid trouble, early on... why did you not send the armada of the 7th Fleet, which is stationed there in the Pacific? You just make a U-turn and go there and tell them right on their face, stop it."

Kim, who only arrived in Manila in December 2016, to take up his role as ambassador, said that he was unable to offer an answer, according to Duterte.


The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently released new surveillance data indicating that construction of three of the Chinese man-made islands is close to completion. According to satellite photos, runways, aircraft hangers, radar sites and hardened surface-to-air missile shelters have either been finished or are soon to be.

Despite China's push for control over the region, Duterte continues to support the Philippines' neighbour. On the eve of his 72nd birthday (on 28 March), the president met with Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua, following which he told an audience in Oriental Mindoro that increase in agricultural exports was thanks to China's President Xi Jinping and "also the Chinese people, (as) they are really good. They are faithful friends".

"We are at our best level of friendship with China after I went there," the leader said in his speech in the northern agricultural province.
 
Philippines' Duterte orders occupation of uninhabited isles in disputed sea

https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippines-duterte-plans-visit-disputed-south-china-sea-071834257.html


MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday ordered the occupation of uninhabited islands and shoals it claims in the disputed South China Sea, asserting Philippine sovereignty in an apparent change of tack.

The firebrand leader, who on the campaign trail joked that he would jet ski to a Chinese man-made island in the South China Sea to reinforce Manila's claim, also said he may visit a Philippine-controlled island to raise the national flag.


"The unoccupied, which are ours, let's live on it," Duterte told reporters during a visit to a military base in Palawan, near the disputed waters.

"It looks like everyone is making a grab for the islands there. So we better live on those that are still unoccupied. What's ours now, we claim it and make a strong point from there."

Duterte's occupation plan is unlikely to sit well with China, which lays claim to almost all the South China Sea, especially as it comes amid a fast-warming relationship between the two sides in recent months.

Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan also have claims in the strategic waters.

Duterte announced his "separation" from the United States in October, declaring he had realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.

His efforts to engage China, months after a tribunal in the Hague ruled that Beijing did not have historic rights to the South China Sea, in themselves marked a reversal in foreign policy.

The Philippines occupies nine "features", or islands and reefs, in the South China Sea, including a World War II-vintage transport ship which ran aground on Second Thomas Shoal in the late 1990s.

Duterte said he might visit the island of Thitu, the largest of the Philippine-controlled Spratly Islands, and build a barracks for servicemen operating in the area.

"In the coming Independence Day, I may go to Pagasa island to raise the flag there," Duterte said, using the local name for Thitu.

The Philippines marks its 119th year of independence from more than three centuries of Spanish rule on June 12.

Thitu is close to Subi Reef, one of seven man-made islands in the Spratlys that China is accused of militarizing with surface-to-air missiles, among other armaments.

Last month, Defence Minister Delfin Lorenzana said the military would strengthen its facilities in the Spratlys, building a new port, paving an existing rough airstrip and repairing other structures.

Duterte said last month it was pointless trying to challenge China's fortification of its man-made islands and ridiculed the media for referring to his comment that he would jet ski to one Beijing's reclaimed reefs.

"We cannot stop them because they are building it with their mind fixed that they own the place. China will go to war," he said. "People want me to jet ski. These fools believed me."
 
Is this the end for el presidente?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...h-china-sea-island-after-warning-from-beijing

The Philippines’ president, Rodrigo Duterte, has cancelled a planned visit to an island the Philippines claims in the disputed South China Sea, after Beijing warned him against the visit.

The brash Philippine leader last week announced his plan to raise the Philippine flag in the island of Thitu, in the Spratlys chain, and fortify it with barracks, setting off alarm bells.



“Because of our friendship with China and because we value your friendship I will not go there to raise the Philippine flag,” Duterte said in a speech before the Filipino community in Riyadh late Wednesday.

“They said, do not go there in the meantime, just do not go there please. I will correct myself because we value our friendship with China,” he said, adding that he might just send his son to the island.

Duterte first made the threat on 6 April when he told reporters: “I have ordered the armed forces to occupy all – these so many islands, I think nine or 10 – put up structures and the Philippine flag.”

“And in the coming Independence Day of ours [12 June], I might, I may go to Pag-asa island to raise the flag there. Even those that are vacant, let us habitate there.”

China claims most of the South China Seathrough which about $5tr in ship-borne trade passes annually. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

Duterte said Beijing warned him that “there will likely be trouble” if every head of state of contending parties will go to the disputed islands and plant flags.

Duterte, who led the warming of ties with China, has blamed the United States for the current maritime tensions for not intervening to stop China building and arming artificial islands in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.

The Philippines will reinforce, but not militarise, areas in the South China Seacontrolled by Manila to maintain the geopolitical balance, Duterte said on Monday.
 
He needs to export more canned goods, cars and goat cheese to China.
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